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Six children in all and they will go on to become emergency foster parents as well. but their loss remains with them. >> collin is buried in richmond and that is something that they always think about. it's very much a part of him and patrice. >> after three years at a private firm, comey decides to return to government work in 1996, running the richmond office of the u.s. attorney for eastern virginia. >> a job that i liked and i miss something. i miss getting up in the morning, trying to be part of doing something good. i miss work with moral compass, as corny as that sounds. >> at the time ...

>> at the time richmond has the fourth highest murder rate in the country. >> illegal guns. it's a side richmond police had seen far too often. >> comey sees an answer in a program being rolled out called project exile. anyone caught with an illegal gun can be charged in federal court. >> these geniuses at the advertising agency created a brand and bought billboards in bad neighborhoods and buses and tv commercials and printed cards with our slogan, illegal guns will get you five years in federal prison. one guy got locked up for seven years and he said, the damn ad said five. >> fbi director ...

It's a side richmond police had seen far too often. >> comey sees an answer in a program being rolled out called project exile. anyone caught with an illegal gun can be charged in federal court. >> these geniuses at the advertising agency created a brand and bought billboards in bad neighborhoods and buses and tv commercials and printed cards with our slogan, illegal guns will get you five years in federal prison. one guy got locked up for seven years and he said, the damn ad said five. >> fbi director louis freeh is struggling to bring indictments in the terrorist bombing at the khobar towers...

Long-term results, that alone in itself, they're going to be disappointed. let me get back to just point to one other thing that was mentioned earlier. i don't see any significant change or significant progress in bipartisan support for a police reform agenda. i just don't see it. there was significant resistance initially from the attorney general's office to even the ideas of police reform, and more of a tendency to want to go back to the '90s using project exile from '97 in virginia which basically added mandatory minimum sentences for gun related crimes. also jeff sessions' decision and su...

Separation and check on the fbi. as you point out, the prosecutorial discretion with the department of justice, i think that was a mistake that director comey, albeit a good man, made and justified his termination. on the minute or so i have left, let me ask you about project safe neighborhood. the reason why am so interested in this, when i was in attorney general in texas, we try to learn from the u.s. attorney and their project exile, focusing on gun crime. to my mind, it was one of the most innovative and successful ways to discourage ways from using guns and carrying guns. using the power...